I receive a lot of questions from bloggers who are always concerned about every little nitty gritty detail about their blog when it comes to search engine optimization. The thing is, most of these questions are already answered out there in blogs across the Internet. So, why is SEO so hard to understand? Answer: Because
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SEO Is Not Dying
Optimizing your site is definitely a necessity, but overdoing it will hurt your site. All this talk on SEO dying is hogwash. If it were, then there would be no search engines. SEO is not dying. The issue that some people are hurt over is the fact that they actually have to write great content
[Continue Reading...]Why You Should Use a Custom 404 Page
What is a 404 page? It is a page that tells your visitors when they go to a specific page that it no longer exists. Using a custom page for this is a benefit, especially to search engines like Google. The search engines index websites and all of their pages, including the 404 page. One
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I know, I know, it really sucks! All that effort you put into optimizing your site for search engines might actually come back to bite you in the butt. At SWSW 2012 (South by Southwest conference), Matt Cutts, and several others spoke about search engine optimization in their panel “Dear Google & Bing: Help Me
[Continue Reading...]The Importance of Sitemaps
Sitemaps are important because they allow the search engines like Google and Yahoo! to index your entire site and leave it available for other internet users to find. A sitemap is defined: A site map (or sitemap) is a representation of the architecture of a web site. It can be either a document in any
[Continue Reading...]Pingbacks And Trackbacks: Using Them Successfully
A lot of times when I go to my WordPress administrator panel, I look at the trackbacks. Sometimes it may be someone referenced a post in twitter, or another person’s blog. According to Wikipedia, A trackback is one of three types of linkbacks, methods for Web authors to request notification when somebody links to one
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